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Question 37
If you are provided with some vegetables to cook. You generally add salt into the vegetables during cooking process. After adding salt, vegetables release water. What mechanism is responsible for this?

Answer 1

Vegetables release water on the addition of salt to maintain the isotonic environment, this is because the salt solution is hypertonic compared to the vegetable cells. This process is known as exosmosis, which occurs when the fluid moves from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.